playgenesis.com — The world's first dynamic MMORPG, Genesis, has been announced. Other interesting features include the ability to reproduce, permanent death, dynamically created story lines/quests, and fully destructible/creatable environments.
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furrotAug 9, 2006
Hey Gavan, good luck with this. It looks like you've accomplished a lot and can't wait to how you improve upon your engine in the future. I'm looking foward to your coding "assignments" because this looks like the kind of project I would definatly want to contribute to.
crass22Aug 10, 2006
yeah, and upon second thought: Vaporware is still Vaporware regardless of if its from a big company or a 1 man operation.
junior27Aug 10, 2006
One question though. If you don't have npc characters and you have children, how will you have them? Will they be treated as livestock until you die and whatnot? Great idea though. I would really like to help develope something, anything, to contribute. I don't even care if I get a credit or not, I just wanna help out (I'm a poor student, so I might only barely be able to help you finance wise.) Keep it up man, don't give in. And don't be afraid to ask for help either, you have like, *THE* best community for this kind of stuff right here.
aminusAug 10, 2006
Maybe saying it is the first isn't right, but if half the ideas in the game are implemented, it has potential to take it the farthest.
vezquexAug 10, 2006
I like the graphics, however, I wonder about real estate. Instead of a largely flat world with buildings and terrain here and there, give everyone a cube in the middle of all the other cubes and let them build anything they want... within 1000 cubic meters. But if the floor above you collapses, then you're screwed.
therayvenAug 10, 2006
@corexian:The viewpoint is isometric, ala RTS cameras, but the objects in the game themselves are 3D and the camera can be panned/zoomed/tilted (but is not free-roaming).
therayvenAug 10, 2006
Hero: "Come oooon."Kid: "I don't get it!"Hero: *offers kid booze*Kid: "I don't get it!"I used to work for a console-based LAN gaming store. A 12-year-old kid playing Fable took off the character's pants, went to the school in Bowerstone, got the teacher drunk, then herded all the children into a corner and hip-thrusted at them. I weep for humanity.
therayvenAug 10, 2006
... and no story, no plot, no character advancement. It's literally a 3D MUCK. Don't get me wrong, I love Second Life and I think it's one of the most interesting social experiments I've ever seen, and I keep mentally comparing the two, but they are definitely different. Second Life has no constraints, you can literally do anything; Genesis will have restraints that cause cohesion.
gavanwAug 10, 2006Submitter
Hey everybody, another update:A lot of people are concerned about this product becoming vaporware. I'll be honest, so am I. Like I have said before, there is no way I can do all of this on my own. Fortunately, I have been recieving hundred of emails from people will to donate their services doing artwork, programming, web design, game design, and web/ftp hosting. I think this project might just have the enthusiasm behind it that it needs to take off!Also, a few people are concerned with it being "2d". It is actually 3D, just a fixed perspective. Everything is rendered in 3d with polygons, I just removed the ability to rotate the scene because it means that I can render the scene once (for static objects) and have millions more polygons in a scene than commercial games! Also, graphics are of the least concern...the main thing you should be concerned with is: will it be fun?
no1noseAug 11, 2006
Anybody know if the plan is for this game to be sharded, or will it be one huge world for everyone?
dbzvelenaAug 11, 2006
Tobad i can't dig this more than once.This should stay in the publics eye to keep it going.Anyway, i'm gonna stay with the project and keep donating in the up coming months.And maybe help in other ways too, i duno yet what i can do though.
erhanaltaySep 6, 2008
w<a class="user" href="http://mmohub.org">http://mmohub.org</a> is a more comprehensive list IMHO.
erhanaltayJan 23, 2009
Looks like this is one of those games that will never come out... So many good free MMORPGs out there coming out every week though, just play one of them instead. I find new ones on <a class="user" href="http://mmohut.com">http://mmohut.com</a>
erhanaltayMar 25, 2009
Permanent death in an MMORPG? Sounds interesting. Sort of like hardcore mode in Diablo 2. Don't know how well this would ever catch on though. Sort of like Ultima Online I guess in terms of production and things to do. I read it on <a class="user" href="http://mmohut.com" rel="nofollow">http://mmohut.com</a>